I have a somewhat strange problem. A client has moved their site to Wordpress. They use a service for link exchanges that has a Wordpress plugin. The issue is that the new links pages use a query string to display the correct content and I cannot figure out how to redirect the old URLs correctly.

Old URLs look like this: domain.com/link/category-name.html

The plugin makes them look like this in WP: domain.com/links/?page=category-name.html

OK, I got it. I'm a novice with .htaccess. Could I rewrite the URL then redirect it? So set up a rewrite rule and then set my redirects? Would that be the best (or at least better) solution?
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dkmojoOct 25 '12 at 23:09

it's a long time since I did somthing like this but that should work.
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MikeTOct 25 '12 at 23:20

Awesome! I've never had to do anything like this before with a redirect and the plugin that the links company has creates the URLs dynamically which has caused this issue. Thank you for your input, I really appreciate it!
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dkmojoOct 25 '12 at 23:22

Thanks. But what part of your answer is the config portion? Sorry but I'm not very familiar with setting conf files. Could you elaborate as to what and where I need to place the config? My client has their site hosted with GoDaddy. Do I need to contact them? Thanks!
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dkmojoOct 27 '12 at 14:10